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ArticleJournal of advanced nursing2013

Text-in-context: a method for extracting findings in mixed-methods mixed research synthesis studies.

Margarete Sandelowski, Jennifer Leeman, Kathleen Knafl, Jamie L Crandell

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Article in Journal of advanced nursing, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 17 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 17 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Margarete SandelowskiUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. msandelo@email.unc.edu
Jennifer Leeman
Kathleen Knafl
Jamie L Crandell

Funding

Mixed-Methods Synthesis of Research on Childhood Chronic Conditions and FamilyR01NR012445 · NINR · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI KNAFL, KATHLEEN A. · 2011 to 2015
$2.3M
UNC Mentored Career Development Program in Comparative Effectiveness ResearchK12HS019468 · AHRQ · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WEINBERGER, MORRIS · 2010 to 2010
$2.0M
AHRQ HHS K12 HS019468NINR NIH HHS R01 NR012445
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimOur purpose in this paper is to propose a new method for extracting findings from research reports included in mixed-methods mixed research synthesis studies.

backgroundInternational initiatives in the domains of systematic review and evidence synthesis have been focused on broadening the conceptualization of evidence, increased methodological inclusiveness and the production of evidence syntheses that will be accessible to and usable by a wider range of consumers. Initiatives in the general mixed-methods research field have been focused on developing truly integrative approaches to data analysis and interpretation. DATA SOURCE: The data extraction challenges described here were encountered, and the method proposed for addressing these challenges was developed, in the first year of the ongoing (2011-2016) study: Mixed-Methods Synthesis of Research on Childhood Chronic Conditions and Family. DISCUSSION: To preserve the text-in-context of findings in research reports, we describe a method whereby findings are transformed into portable statements that anchor results to relevant information about sample, source of information, time, comparative reference point, magnitude and significance and study-specific conceptions of phenomena. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING: The data extraction method featured here was developed specifically to accommodate mixed-methods mixed research synthesis studies conducted in nursing and other health sciences, but reviewers might find it useful in other kinds of research synthesis studies.

conclusionThis data extraction method itself constitutes a type of integration to preserve the methodological context of findings when statements are read individually and in comparison to each other.

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Research DesignData CollectionHumansNursing ResearchQualitative Research

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PMID22924808
PMCPMC3535067

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